Legal Forum for Israel files criminal complaint against J Street's D.C. lobbying

The Legal Forum for Israel filed a criminal complaint against the U.S.-based advocacy group J Street and its executive director, Nadav Tami, on Sunday, accusing them of violating Israeli law by advocating for restrictions on American military aid to Israel during wartime.

“J Street’s activities, beyond being immoral, can cause actual harm to the State of Israel in its most sensitive situation in many years,” wrote attorneys Shai Mark and Yotam Eyal in their complaint. They argue that lobbying U.S. lawmakers to restrict military aid during an active conflict violates Israeli law.

Specifically, the Legal Forum for Israel’s complaint alleges that lobbying efforts to convince U.S. lawmakers to limit military assistance constitute a criminal offense under Section 108 of Israel's Penal Code.

This law prohibits actions that endanger military supply lines during wartime. The offense carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.

The complaint specifically highlights the Washington-based J Street's recent efforts regarding U.S. military support for Israel amid the ongoing war that began on October 7, 2023.

While J Street Israel has not yet responded to the allegations, the organization defends its advocacy as promoting long-term peace and stability in the region.

Tamir, J Street’s executive director, is a former Israeli consul general to New England and adviser to ex-Prime Minister Shimon Peres.

While serving as consul general in Boston in 2009, a lengthy memo Tamir wrote criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's policies toward the Obama administration was leaked. He was recalled to Jerusalem and reprimanded, but returned to his post in Boston.

Israeli authorities will now review the complaint to determine if a criminal investigation is warranted.

Shortly after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the White House lifted a Biden administration ban on 2000-pound MK84 bombs.

On Thursday, The New York Times reported that the Trump administration is also considering green-lighting the sale of 24,000 rifles to Israel which the Biden administration also suspended.

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Ocasio-Cortez attacks critics of her stupidity re: Israel

At a joint event with New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proved once again that she knows about political issues as much as goldfish know about algebra.

Ocasio-Cortez stated that after she made her inflammatory remarks about the state of Israel, the people most outraged by her were members of the "alt-right."

If she knew anything about the "alt-right" she'd realize that they, among other anti-Zionist/anti-Semites, would happily agree with her. They hate the state of Israel.

Even former Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, an orthodox Jew, came out against her statement, and he's hardly a member of the "alt-right."

But the low-information political neophyte apparently gets her talking points from bumper stickers, occupy events and vehemently anti-Zionist groups.

One such group is the Jewish Voice for Peace.

The Anti-Defamation League noted that "Jewish Voice for Peace [JVP] is a radical anti-Israel activist group that advocates for a complete economic, cultural and academic boycott of the state of Israel... JVP considers supporters of Israel, or even critics of Israel who do not hew to JVP's own extreme views, to be complicit in Israel's purported acts of racist oppression of Palestinians. JVP leaders believe that expressing support for Israel, or not challenging mainstream Jewish organizations that support Israel, must also be viewed as an implicit attack on people of color and all marginalized groups in the United States."

Another such group where she gets her "knowledge" about Israel is J Street.

This group has a long history of being anti-Israel. "It claims to be 'a pro-Israel, pro peace lobby.' It has now become neither," attorney Alan Dershowitz wrote in 2010.

In 2014 Paul Miller wrote in The Hill, "J Street partners with the rabidly anti-Semitic Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a group in the forefront of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement.

An SJP document recently discovered by AMCHA Initiative, an education watchdog group, reveals SJP plans to target, ostracize, harass and silence pro-Israel students.

These are the scumwafer bigots J Street sees as "pro-Israel, pro-peace." They want the Jewish community to take "a new approach" and stop "demonizing" the BDS movement.

They remind one of Antifa, a group using fascist tactics but calling itself anti-fascist as they use violence to silence those with different political views.

Ocasio-Cortez has no idea what the "alt-right" actually stands for and is clueless as to how they would happily endorse her anti-Zionist views.

But she's somewhat easy to look at and probably doesn't smell badly. It's only her views that do.

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